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Audrey Eu Yuet-Mee

It's a court battle that's going all around the houses. A developer wants to tear down five houses and build a 26-storey block in their place. But the director of the Lands Department insists that it can build only houses - not multi-storey blocks - on the subdivided site, according to the government lease.

Civic Party boss Audrey Eu Yuet-mee said the standards for universal suffrage "are not Western but universal". In granting the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo , the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland said "human rights are universal". But what on earth can they mean by "universal"?

So it looks like we will have another Occupy Central. Only this time it will be for real, run by people who hopefully know what they are doing, as a campaign to press the government and Beijing for full democracy. This is the brainchild of Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Civic Party chairwoman Audrey Eu Yuet-mee took the opportunity of a Valentine's Day radio show to send out a message both bold and affectionate to other members of the pan-democratic camp. Under her leadership, the party is not going to wait for the government's proposals on democratic reform to be published: rather, it is going to get to work right away, together with other like-minded political parties, to spell out their own set of proposals for how to achieve universal suffrage.

Thousands of people who have shared the political column that Leung Chun-ying claims accuses him of having links with triads could be subject to defamatory charges if the chief executive decides to take the publisher to court, a legal expert suggested.

Indigenous Sai Kung villagers are profiting from covert deals with land developers that exploit the small-house scheme - while allowing land premiums and rezoning laws to be ignored - a South China Morning Post investigation has learned.

A Legco panel has accused environmental officials of 'cheating' by postponing for three months the law meant to ban idling engines.

Adding to lawmakers' anger, a one-month grace period will be granted to offenders after the law takes effect on December 15 - three months after its intended implementation date and 10 months after the legislation was passed.